Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women about Women

356 Pages·1978·24.743 MB·English

by  Pamela Sargent, Kate Wilhelm, Judith Merril, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Joanna Russ, Vonda N. McIntyre, Sonya Dorman, Katherine Anne MacLean, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Kit Reed, Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin

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SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
WOMEN WOMEN
ABOUT
BY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND
EDITED,
NOTES, BY PAMELA SARGENT
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SCIENCE
FICTION STORIES
BY WOMEN ABOUT WOMEN
Edited, with an
PinAtroduMctionEand nLotes bAy
SARGCNT
Vintage Books
A Division of Random House/New York
VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION Januar)- 1975
©
Copyright 1974 by Pamela Sargent
AU rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States
by Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously
in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Sargent, Pamela, comp.
Women of wonder.
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS: Dorman, S. The child dreams.-Merril, J.
That only a mother.—MacLean, K. Contagion, [etc.]
1. Women's writings, American. 2. Science fiction, American.
Women—
3. Fiction. I. Title.
PZl.SlSWo [PS647.W6] 813'.0876 74-16044
ISBN 0-394-71041-X
Manufactured in the United States of America
ACKNOWL-
KDOEMEMTS
©
"That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril; copyright
1948 b.y Street & Smith PubHcations, Inc. in the U.S.A.
©
and Great Britain, and copyright 1954 by Judith
Merril. Reprinted from Astounding Science Fiction
by permission of the author and her agent, Virginia
Kidd.
©
"Contagion" by Katherine MacLean; copyright
1950 by World Editions, Inc. Reprinted by permission
of the author and her agent, Virginia Kidd.
"The Wind People" by Marion Zimmer Bradley; copy-
©
right 1958 by Quinn Publishing Company, Inc. Re-
printed by permission of the author and her agents,
Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc.
"The Ship Who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey; copyright
©
1961 by Mercury Press, Inc. Reprinted by permis-
sion of the author and her agent, Virginia Kidd.
"When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman; copyright
©
1966 by Galaxy Publishing Corp. Reprinted by per-
mission of the author and her agent, John Schaffner.
"The Child Dreams," also by Sonya Dorman, is re-
printed bv permission of the author.
©
"The Food Farm" by Kit Reed; copyright 1966 by
Kit Reed. Originally published in Orbit Two by
G. P. Putnam's Sons; reprinted by permission of the
author and her agents, Brandt & Brandt.
"Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm; copyright
© 1967 by Damon Knight. Reprinted from Orbit Two
by permission of the author.
"Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" by Carol Emshwiller; copy-
©
right 1967 by Harlan Ellison. Reprinted from
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vi
Dangerous Visions b\' permission of the author and
the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K.
©
Le Guin; copyright 1971 by Robert Silverberg. Re-
printed from New Dimensions One by permission of
the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
"False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; copyright
© 1972 bv Random House, Inc. Reprinted from
Strange Bedfellows by permission of the author.
©
"Nobody's Home" by Joanna Russ; copyright 1972
by Robert Silverberg. Reprinted from New Dimen-
sions Two by permission of the author.
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" bv Vonda N. McInt\Te;
©
cop\Tight 1973 by the Conde Nast Publications
Inc. Reprinted from Analog bv permission of the
author.
I would like to thank the following people, without
whose help, advice and moral support my task in
putting together this anthology would have been much
morediflBcult:
Janet Kafka
Vonda N. Mclntyre
George Zebrowski
Jack Dann